Ranka Stanković

University of Belgrade, Faculty of Mining and Geology
Member of: WG1, WG2

FEATURED NEOLOGISM:

To hallucinate / halucynować: to say incorrect or misleading things. Initially used in the context of large language models (LLMs), it is now also applied to humans, not in the literal sense of experiencing hallucinations, but to describe expressing incorrect or nonsensical information. For example: “Ale ona gada głupoty – ciągle się zapętla, chyba halucynuje.” (She’s talking nonsense – she keeps repeating herself, she must be hallucinating.)

Ranka Stanković is professor at University of Belgrade, Faculty of Mining and Geology, where she is teaching several courses related to informatics, statistics and geoinformatics. She is also teaching Programming for Linguists, Information extraction from text and Semantic Web at University of Belgrade Master and Phd study program. She is vice president of JERTEH, Serbian Society for Language Resource and technology and chairman of Technical Committee A037 Terminology in Institute for Standardization of Serbia, chef of Computer Centre in Faculty of Mining and Geology, University of Belgrade and team leader for several national software projects. Her major research interests are lexical resources, information extraction, semantic web, information systems, database modelling, geoinformation management, open education, and artificial intelligence. Her current research is focused on information extraction and retrieval based on custom components that incorporate knowledge from various language and lexical resources, that includes building several semantic and morphological lexical resources and tools for NLP, indexing and query expansion.